Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932159AbVK1SGb (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:06:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932156AbVK1SGT (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:06:19 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:18698 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932148AbVK1SGB (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:06:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:05:55 +0000 From: Russell King To: Kumar Gala Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [DRIVER MODEL] Allow overlapping resources for platform devices Message-ID: <20051128180555.GB14557@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Kumar Gala , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 20 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:39AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > There are cases in which a device's memory mapped registers overlap > with another device's memory mapped registers. On several PowerPC > devices this occurs for the MDIO bus, whose registers tended to overlap > with one of the ethernet controllers. Hrm, shouldn't the MDIO device be registered by the ethernet driver then? The MDIO device is a child of the ethernet device - and this also brings up the question about PM ordering - should the MDIO device be suspended before or after the ethernet device. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/